"Carolyn Val-Schmidt's accurate soprano rode brilliantly over Verdi's colossal ensembles."
Denver Post, May 5th, Jeff Bradley

BIOGRAPHY
The full lyric soprano voice of Carolyn Val-Schmidt inspires acclaim for beauty of tone and bel canto line as well as dramatic thrust and breath-catching flexibility.

Appearances at the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall prededed her 18 major opera roles. A celebrated Mozart soprano, Val-Schmidt's professional opera debut in Sarasota as "Contessa" let to "Fiordiligi," and "Donna Anna," where her fluidity of line, beautiful tone, agility, and tasteful phrasing graced stages such as the Artists Internationale and Michigan Opera Theater.

This versatile soprano has sung in eleven languages and has performed with over a dozen opera companies. Val-Schmidt has sung, acted, and danced in musical theather across the United States.

Val-Schmidt served as a guest soloist with renowned concert series such as the Newport Music Festival and New York's Clarion Concerts. Val-Schmidt's orchestral, recital and cabaret appearances are noted for musical sensitivity and technical finesse as well as stimulating repertoire.

This soprano received a Fellowship in the Perfoming Arts to pursue her Master's degree in music and drama at the University of Illinois. Awards of two Rockerfeller grants and three international voice competitions followed graduation.

Val-Schmidt was invited to join the Maria Callas Master Class and created the leading soprano role in the World Premiere of Virgil Thomson's Lord Byron at the American Opera Center in the Julliard School.

Former Chair of the Voice Department at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Val-Schmidt judged the 1993 Metropolitan Opera Regional Competition. She balances a private voice studio with her performance schedule.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
The Julliard School of Music- American Opera Center
Post-Graduate Classes in All Aspects of Performance

Metropolitan Opera Studio
Opera Coaching and Performance

New York State Professional Teacher
Certification in Music, Grades K-12

Hofstra University, New York
Orff-Shulwerk Level I Post Graduate Work

University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Bachelor & Master of Music

HONORS AND AWARDS
Maria Callas Master Class
The Julliard School of Music

Carnegie Recital Hall Debut Performance
Winner of the East and West Artists International Vocal Competition

Metropolitan Opera, List Hall
Performed as winner of Liederkranz Voice Competition

University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
*Actors Equity
*American Guild of Musical Artists
*Mu Phi Epsilon
*National Association of Teachers of Singing (1991-2007)

TEACHING
*Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (Chairperson of Voice Dept.), Brooklyn, NY

*Faculty at the Rocky Mountain Center for the Musical Arts

*Master Classes:

• University of Denver
• University of Wisconsin
• Friends University, Kansas

*Conductor:

• Lafayette Community Chorus
• Boulder Summer Sings
• First Presbyterian Church Singles Choir
• Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Long Island, NY
• Roosevelt Public Schools, Long Island, NY
• St. John the Baptist High School, Long Island, NY
• St. Joseph High School, Brooklyn, NY

MUSICAL THEATER
Production Staff

DIRECTOR: Musical Theater/Opera Workshop
Boulder Philharmonic Academy

DIRECTOR: Spring Extravaganzas
Carolyn Val-Schmidt Voice Studio

MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Guys and Dolls
St. John the Baptist High School

CREATOR/DIRECTOR: Night of Song, Dance and Drama
St. Joseph High School

MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Damn Yankees
Free Synagogue Community Theater

Performance

The Sound of Music
*Mother Abbess
National Tour with Debbie Boone

The Sound of Music
*Sister Sophia, *Sister Berthe and *Understudy Mother Abbess
Nine-month national tour with Gingerbread Productions

The Sound of Music
*Chorus
Summer Stock, Artpark, New York

The Club
*Bobby
Seattle A.C.T.

The Club
*Bobby
Charles Theater, Boston

Brigadoon
*Fiona
High School Production


*World Premiere Roles
**American Premiere Roles

BIZETCarmen Michaela
BRITTEN **Death in Venice English Lady
CARMINES *The Duel Betsy Hamilton
MENOTTI The Telephone Lucy
MONTEVERDI The Coronation of Poppea Poppea
MOZART
~ Cosi fan Tutte Fiordiligi
~ Don Giovanni Donna Anna
~ Le Nozze di Figaro Contessa
~ Die Zauberflote First Lady

PUCCINI
~ La Boheme Mimi
~ Gianni Schicchi Lauretta
~ Madama Butterfly Cio-Cio-San

PURCELL Dido and Aeneas Belinda
REITI Don Perlimplin Belissa
RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN The Sound of Music Mother Abbess
SMETANA The Bartered Bride Maria
THOMSON *Lord Byron Agusta Leigh
VERDI
~ **Il Corsaro Medora
~ Rigoletto Gilda
~ La Traviata Violetta

WARD The Crucible Mary Warren

Metropolitan Opera
Mini-Met
Metropolitan Opera Studio
American Opera Center
Artists Internationale

Asolo Opera
Goldovsky Opera Theater
Lake George Opera
Manhasset Bay Opera
Michigan Opera Theater
Opera Southwest
Temple University Music Festival
Soho Baroque Opera


CONDUCTORS
Peter and Herman Adler
Steuart Bedford
Richard Dufallo
Ronald Gagnon
Henry Lewis
Gerhard Samuels
William Smith
Richard Woitach

STAGE DIRECTORS
Alvin Ailey
Henry Baker
Patrick Bakman
Adelaide Bishop
Paul-Emile Deiber
Colin Graham
John Houseman
George London
Moni Yakim

COLORADO CONDUCTORS
David Lockington (Denver Chamber Orchestra)
Julius Glaihengaus (Centennial Philharmonic Orchestra)
Oswald Lennert (Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra)
Robert Olson (Longmont Symphony)
Greg Norton (Boulder Chorale)

*Comprehensive list of conductors and stage directors available upon request.